Advantech ARK-7480 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• ARK-7480 Manual

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• Contents

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• Chapter 1 Overview

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  • 1.1 Introduction

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  • 1.2 Features

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    • 1.2.1 Six USB Ports, Six Serial Ports, and Dual LAN Port Capacity for intensive control and communication

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    • 1.2.2 Compact, Extremely Robust Construction

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    • 1.2.3 Highly Optimized Integration

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    • 1.2.4 Dual Display, Video Intensive capacity

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    • 1.2.5 Highly Robust Casting Construction

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    • 1.2.6 Highly Scalable Performance with low power consumption

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    • 1.2.7 Optimized Integration

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  • 1.3 Hardware Specification

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    • 1.3.1 Processor System

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    • 1.3.2 Display

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    • 1.3.3 Ethernet

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    • 1.3.4 Audio

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    • 1.3.5 Serial Port

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    • 1.3.6 Parallel Port

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    • 1.3.7 USB

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    • 1.3.8 Expansion

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    • 1.3.9 Storage Dive Bay

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    • 1.3.10 Other

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    • 1.3.11 Extended Dive Bay (only for Model ARK-7480- 200A1)

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    • 1.3.12 Internal AC-to-DC ATX Power supply unit

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    • 1.3.13 Mechanical

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    • 1.3.14 Environment Specifications

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  • 1.4 Chassis Dimensions

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    • 1.4.1 Dimensions of ARK-7480-100A1

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      • Figure 1.1: Dimension of ARK-7480-100A1

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    • 1.4.2 Dimensions of ARK-7480-200A1

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      • Figure 1.2: Dimension of ARK-7480-200A1

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• Chapter 2 Hardware Functionality

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  • 2.1 Introduction of ARK-7480 External I/O Connectors

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    • Figure 2.1: Front metal panel external I/O connectors of Model: ARK- 7480-100A1

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    • Figure 2.2: Front metal panel external I/O connectors of Model: ARK- 7480-100A1

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  • 2.2 Front metal panel external I/O connectors

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    • 2.2.1 Power ON/OFF Button

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    • 2.2.2 LED Indicators

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    • 2.2.3 Power Input Connector

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    • 2.2.4 COM1, COM3~COM6 Connector

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      • Figure 2.3: COM1, COM3~COM6 connector

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      • Table 2.1: COM1, 3~COM6 standard serial port pin assignments

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    • 2.2.5 COM2 Connector

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      • Figure 2.4: COM2 connector

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      • Table 2.2: COM2 standard serial port pin assignments

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    • 2.2.6 Printer Connector

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      • Figure 2.5: LPT connector

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      • Table 2.3: Printer Connector

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    • 2.2.7 Audio Connector

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      • Table 2.4: Speaker_Out connector

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      • Table 2.5: Mic_In connector

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    • 2.2.8 LVDS Connector

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      • Figure 2.6: LVDS Connector

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      • Table 2.6: LVDS Connector Pin Assignment

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    • 2.2.9 DVI Connector

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      • Figure 2.7: DVI Connector

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      • Table 2.7: DVI Connector Pin Assignment

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    • 2.2.10 Ethernet Connectors (LAN1 and LAN 2)

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      • Figure 2.8: RJ-45 Connector

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      • Table 2.8: RJ-45 Connector pin assignments

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    • 2.2.11 PS2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connector

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      • Figure 2.9: PS/2 Keyboard connector

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      • Table 2.9: PS/2 Keyboard connector pin assignments

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      • Figure 2.10: PS/2 Mouse connector

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      • Table 2.10: PS/2 Mouse connector pin assignments

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    • 2.2.12 VGA Connector

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      • Figure 2.11: VGA connector

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      • Table 2.11: VGA connector pin assignment

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    • 2.2.13 USB Connectors (USB1 ~ USB6)

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      • Figure 2.12: USB connector

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      • Table 2.12: Table 2.14 USB Connector

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• Chapter 3 Hardware Installation and Upgrade

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  • 3.1 Jumpers and Connectors

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  • 3.2 Setting jumpers

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  • 3.3 Jumper Location

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    • Table 3.1: Jumpers

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    • Figure 3.1: Jumper Location of internal SBC board of ARK-7480

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  • 3.4 LVDS/LCD Power Select (JP4)

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    • Table 3.2:

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  • 3.5 COM2 RS-232/422/485 Jumper setting (JP5)

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    • Table 3.3:

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  • 3.6 COM 1 ~ COM 6 Ring / Voltage Selection (JP1)

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    • Table 3.4:

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  • 3.7 CMOS Clearance (JP3)

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    • Table 3.5:

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  • 3.8 Installation of the Central Processing Unit (CPU)

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    • Figure 3.2: Remove Top cover screws

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    • Figure 3.3: Remove card depress bridge bracket screws

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    • Figure 3.4: Install the CPU and apply the thermal grease

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    • Figure 3.5: Install the heatsink-cooling Fan module

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  • 3.9 Installation of the DDR SDRAM Memory Module

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    • Figure 3.6: Install the SDRAM module

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  • 3.10 Insertion of a Mini PCI extension Card

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    • Figure 3.7: Remove the Mini PCI cover from ARK-7480 bottom side

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    • Figure 3.8: Insert the Mini PCI extension card into the Mini PCI slot

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  • 3.11 Insertion of a CompactFlash Card

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    • Figure 3.9: Remove the CF cover from ARK-7480 bottom side

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    • Figure 3.10: Insert the CF card into the CF card slot

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  • 3.12 Installation of the 3.5" Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

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    • Figure 3.11: Assemble HDD and HDD drive bay

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    • Figure 3.12: Connecting IDE flat cable and power cable

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    • Figure 3.13: Install HDD drive bay

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  • 3.13 Installation of the PCI extension cards

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    • Figure 3.14: Remove the PCI card screws

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    • Figure 3.15: Lift the PCI cover bracket and remove the dummy PCI bracket

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    • Figure 3.16: Plug in the PCI extension card into the corresponding slot

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  • 3.14 Installation of the 5.25" Slim CD/DVD ROM Drive (for model of ARK-7480-200A1 only)

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    • Figure 3.17: Remove the drive bay screws

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    • Figure 3.18: Separate the drive bay

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    • Figure 3.19: Fix the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM on the CD-ROM bracket

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    • Figure 3.20: Assemble CD-ROM adapter board

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    • Figure 3.21: Connect IDE cable and power cable with adapter board

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    • Figure 3.22: Fix the CD ROM module into the drive bay

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    • Figure 3.23: Pass the IDE cable and the power cable through the hole beneath the chassis

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    • Figure 3.24: Stacking back the drive bay and connect the power and IDE interface

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  • 3.15 Installation of the Multi Card Reader Drive (for model of ARK-7480-200A1 only)

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    • Figure 3.25: Connect the USB cable to the Card Reader

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    • Figure 3.26: Fix the Card reader with the Card reader bracket

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    • Figure 3.27: Fix the Card Reader module into the drive bay

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    • Figure 3.28: Stacking back the drive bay and connect the USB interface

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  • 3.16 Connecting Power

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• Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup

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  • 4.1 Introduction

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    • 4.1.1 CMOS RAM Auto-backup and Restore

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  • 4.2 Entering Setup

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    • Figure 4.1: Award BIOS Setup initial screen

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  • 4.3 Standard CMOS Setup

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    • Figure 4.2: Standard CMOS features screen

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  • 4.4 Advanced BIOS Features

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    • Figure 4.3: Advanced BIOS features screen

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    • 4.4.1 Virus Warning

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    • 4.4.2 L1 & L2 Cache

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    • 4.4.3 Quick Power On Self Test

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    • 4.4.4 First/Second/Third/Other Boot Device

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    • 4.4.5 Swap Floppy Drive

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    • 4.4.6 Boot UP Floppy Seek

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    • 4.4.7 Boot Up NumLock Status

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    • 4.4.8 Gate A20 Option

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    • 4.4.9 Typematic Rate Setting

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    • 4.4.10 Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

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    • 4.4.11 Typematic Delay (msec)

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    • 4.4.12 Security Option

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    • 4.4.13 APIC Mode

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    • 4.4.14 MPS Version Control For OS

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  • 4.5 Advanced Chipset Features

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    • Figure 4.4: Advanced Chipset Features setup

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    • 4.5.1 DRAM Timing Selectable

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    • 4.5.2 CAS Latency Time

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    • 4.5.3 Active to Precharge Delay

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    • 4.5.4 DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay

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    • 4.5.5 DRAM RAS# Precharge

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    • 4.5.6 DRAM Data Integrity Mode

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    • 4.5.7 MGM Core Frequency

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    • 4.5.8 System BIOS Cacheable

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    • 4.5.9 Video BIOS Cacheable

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    • 4.5.10 Memory Hole At 15M-16M

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    • 4.5.11 Delayed Transaction

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    • 4.5.12 Delay Prior to Thermal

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    • 4.5.13 AGP Aperture Size (MB)

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      • Figure 4.5: **ON Chip VGA Setting** Screen

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    • 4.5.14 On-Chip VGA

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    • 4.5.15 On-Chip Frame Buffer Size

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    • 4.5.16 Boot Display

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    • 4.5.17 Panel Scaling

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    • 4.5.18 Panel Resolution

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  • 4.6 Integrated Peripherals

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    • Figure 4.6: Integrated peripherals

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    • 4.6.1 IDE Master/Slave PIO/UDMA Mode,

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    • 4.6.2 On-Chip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE

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      • Figure 4.7: On Chip IDE Device

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    • 4.6.3 IDE HDD Block Mode

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      • Figure 4.8: Onboard Device

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    • 4.6.4 USB Controller

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    • 4.6.5 USB 2.0 Controller

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    • 4.6.6 USB Keyboard/Mouse Support

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    • 4.6.7 AC97 Audio

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    • 4.6.8 Init Display First

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      • Figure 4.9: Super IO Device

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    • 4.6.9 Onboard FDC Controller

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    • 4.6.10 Onboard Serial Port

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    • 4.6.11 UART Mode Select

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    • 4.6.12 RxD, TxD Active

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    • 4.6.13 IR Transmission Delay

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    • 4.6.14 UR2 Duplex Mode

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    • 4.6.15 Onboard Parallel Port

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    • 4.6.16 Parallel Port Mode

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    • 4.6.17 EPP Mode Select

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    • 4.6.18 ECP Mode Use DMA

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    • 4.6.19 PWRON After PWR-Fail

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  • 4.7 Power Management Setup

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    • 4.7.1 ACPI function

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    • 4.7.2 ACPI Suspend Type

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    • 4.7.3 Power Management

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      • Figure 4.10: Power management setup screen

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    • 4.7.4 Video Off In Method

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    • 4.7.5 Video Off In Suspend

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    • 4.7.6 Suspend type

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    • 4.7.7 Modem Use IRQ

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    • 4.7.8 Suspend Mode

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    • 4.7.9 HDD Power Down

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    • 4.7.10 Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN

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    • 4.7.11 CPU THRM-Throttling

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    • 4.7.12 Wake-up By PCI card

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    • 4.7.13 Power On By Ring

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    • 4.7.14 Resume By Alarm

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    • 4.7.15 Primary IDE 0 (1) and Secondary IDE 0 (1)

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    • 4.7.16 FDD, COM, LPT PORT

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    • 4.7.17 PCI PIRQ [A-D]#

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  • 4.8 PnP/PCI Configurations

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    • Figure 4.11: PnP/PCI configurations screen

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    • 4.8.1 Reset Configuration Data

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    • 4.8.2 Resources controlled by:

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    • 4.8.3 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

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  • 4.9 PC Health Status

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    • Figure 4.12: PC Health Status screen

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    • 4.9.1 CPU Warning Temperature

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    • 4.9.2 Temperatures/Voltages

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    • 4.9.3 Shutdown Temperature

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  • 4.10 Frequency/Voltage Control

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    • Figure 4.13: Frequency/Voltage Control screen

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  • 4.11 Password Setting

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  • 4.12 Save & Exit Setup

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  • 4.13 Exit Without Saving

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• Chapter 5 PCI SVGA/LCD Setup

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  • 5.1 Introduction

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    • 5.1.1 CMOS setting for panel type

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      • Figure 5.1: BIOS Screen of “Boot Display”

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      • Figure 5.2: BIOS Screen of “Panel Resolution”

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    • 5.1.2 Display type

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    • 5.1.3 Dual Independent Display

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      • Figure 5.3: Intel® 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller Properties - Devices

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  • 5.2 Installation of the SVGA Driver

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    • 5.2.1 Installation of Windows 2000/XP

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      • Figure 5.4: Directory “Graphics”

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      • Figure 5.5: Intel extreme Graphics Driver Installation screen

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      • Figure 5.6: Extracting Files screen of Intel extreme Graphics driver installation

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      • Figure 5.7: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver Installation

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      • Figure 5.8: Intel Driver License Agreement

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      • Figure 5.9: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver Version

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      • Figure 5.10: Installation Complete

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  • 5.3 Further Information

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• Chapter 6 Audio Setup

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  • 6.1 Introduction

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  • 6.2 Driver installation

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    • 6.2.1 Before you begin

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    • 6.2.2 Windows 2000/XP drivers

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      • Figure 6.1: Directory of Audio Driver

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      • Figure 6.2: AC97 Audio Driver Installation

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      • Figure 6.3: Installation Complete of AC97 Audio Driver

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• Chapter 7 Ethernet Interface

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  • 7.1 Introduction

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  • 7.2 Installation of Ethernet driver

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    • 7.2.1 Installation for Windows 2000/XP

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      • Figure 7.1: Windows Control Panel Screen

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      • Figure 7.2: Add/Remove Hardware Wizard

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      • Figure 7.3: Choose a Hardware Task Screen

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      • Figure 7.4: Choose a Hardware Device

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      • Figure 7.5: Install Ethernet Controller Screen

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      • Figure 7.6: Hardware Type Screen

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      • Figure 7.7: Install From Disk Screen

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      • Figure 7.8: Network Adapter Selection Screen

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      • Figure 7.9: Start Device Driver Installation

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      • Figure 7.10: Intel Ethernet Adapter driver installation screen

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      • Figure 7.11: Intel Ethernet Adapter Driver Installation Complete Screen

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